AU2004221982B2 - Construct comprising recognition domain of antibody against von Willebrand factor-specific cleaving enzyme - Google Patents
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Abstract
It is intended to provide an epitope recognized by an antibody (hereinafter referred to as anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody in some cases) against an enzyme (hereinafter referred to as ADAMTS-13 in some cases) specifically cleaving von Willebrand factor (hereinafter referred to as vWF in some cases), and a polypeptide containing this epitope domain. A polypeptide located at from the 449- to 687-positions in the amino acid sequences constituting ADAMTS-13 which is recognized by the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody or a peptide fragment originating in this polypeptide.
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DESCRIPTION CONSTRUCT COMPRISING REGION RECOGNIZED BY ANTIBODY AGAINST VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR-SPECIFIC CLEAVING PROTEASE Teclmical Field The present invention relates to the field of ethical drugs. Specifically, the present invention relates to an epitope recognized by an antibody (hereinafter, also referred to as an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody) against cleaving protease (hereinafter, also referred to as ADAMTS-13) specific to von Willebrand factor (hereinafter, also referred to as vWF) involved in blood coagulation, and to a polypeptide comprising the epitope region. The present invention is also relates to an antibody that recognizes the polypeptide. The polypeptide or a peptide fragment thereof provided by the present invention, which comprises an epitope region recognized by an antibody against ADAMTS-13 opens up the possibility of diagnosis given on the presence or absence of an autoantibody against ADAMTS-13 or an absorbing agent for the autoantibody or ADAMTS-13 replacement therapy for a patient with diseases associated with positivity for the autoantibody. Background Art vWF is a blood coagulation factor that is produced in a vascular endothelial cell and a megakaryocyte and is present as a multimer structure (with a molecular weight of 500 to 20,000 kDa) where single subunits each composed of 2050 amino acid residues (approximately 250-kDa monomers) are bound through a S-S bond. The concentration of vWF in blood is approximately 10 tg/ml, and in general, vWF with a higher molecular weight has higher specific activity. The vWF has two major functions as a blood coagulation factor, one of which is a function as a carrier protein that binds to and thereby stabilizes blood coagulation factor VIII and another of which is a function of helping platelets adhere and aggregate to the tissue beneath vascular endothelial cells of injured vascular walls to form platelet thrombi.
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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (hereinafter, also referred to as TTP) is a disease that causes platelet thrombi in body tissue arterioles and capillary vessels in the whole body. In spite of the current progression of medical technology, the mortality associated with the disease has increased approximately threefold from 1971 to 1991. Pathologically, the TTP is considered to be caused by vascular endothelia cell injury and platelet aggregation in blood vessels. Immunohistologically, the presence of vWF in large amounts is observed in generated platelet thrombi, and the vWF is considered to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of the disease. TTP is broadly divided into familial (congenital) TTP likely to have an inheritance factor and acquired (idiopathic) TTP developed especially in adults. Normal or high-molecular-weight vWF multimer structures are dominant in TTP patients. Especially, unusually large vWF multimer (ULvWFM) and large vWF multimer (LvWFM) are presumed to play a crucial role in the promotion of platelet aggregation and microthrombus formation under high shearing stress. On the other hand, vWF has been known to undergo digestion at the location between 842Tyr and 843Met by the action of vWF-cleaving protease under high shearing stress in circulating blood of healthy individuals. Thus, a probable scenario of how TTP is caused is as follows: the activity of the protease in plasma is reduced for some reason and ULvWFM or LvWFM is increased to accelerate platelet aggregation, followed by platelet thrombus formation in the blood vessel. In 2001, a gene encoding vWF-cleaving protease also known as ADAMTS-13 that is an active body having the activity of the protease described above was cloned by the present inventors (JP Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2003-284570). The findings about the molecular structure of ADAMTS-13 are summarized below. The location of a residue number that is numbered from methionine encoded by an initiation codon (ATG) is shown as a rough guide within parentheses (see SEQ ID No. 1). The domain structure of ADAMTS-13 has a signal peptide preceding a propeptide that ends in a RQRR sequence as a furin cleavage motif, followed by a metalloprotease domain containing a reprolysin-type zinc-chelating region consisting of HEXXHXXGXXHD as a consensus sequence (to amino acid residue No. 284 (p285X)); via a disintegrin-like domain as found in snake venom metalloprotease (to amino acid residue No: 386 (W387X)), there exists 2 a first Tspl motif (Tspl-1) consisting of approximately 50 to 60 residues generally considered to be important for molecular recognition (to amino acid residue No. 448 (Q449X)), which continues to a Cys-rich region containing a RGDS sequence as one of cell adhesion motifs (to amino acid residue No. 580 (T581X)); and, through a spacer domain consisting of approximately 130 amino acid residues with no cysteine residue (to amino acid.residue No. 687 (W688X)), additional Tspl motif repeats (Tspl-2 to Tspl-8) follow, which is followed by a CUB domain-1, and -2 that are said to be first found in a complement component Cl r or Cl s. By the way, no finding about a major neutralizing epitope region in ADAMTS-13 has been obtained so far. In addition, a convenient diagnostic method for a patient positive for an autoantibody against the protease has not been established. Up to now, plasmapheresis has been provided as treatment to a patient congenitally deficient in vWF-specific cleaving protease and a patient with acquired production of an antibody against the protease. Therefore, there is a demand for the establishment of replacement therapy with pure vWF-specific cleaving protease such as the protease purified or genetically altered. It has been reported that a familial TTP patient is congenitally deficient in vWF-specific cleaving protease and non-familial TTP is caused by the acquired production of an autoantibody against the protease. Thus, replacement therapy with the protease is preferred for a familial TTP patient (in reality, plasma administration is given to the patient), while a non-familial TTP patient requires the removal of an autoantibody by plasma exchange as well as the supplementation of the protease. However, in the administration of ADAMTS-13 for supplementation to a patient positive for an autoantibody, an antibody against the protease, that is, an autoantibody, present in blood of the patient neutralizes the administered protease. As a result, the protease loses enzyme activity and has substantial reduction in concentration. Any discussion of documents, acts, materials, devices, articles or the like which has been included in the present specification is solely for the purpose of providing a context for the present invention. It is not to be taken as an admission that any or all of these matters form part of the prior art base or were common general knowledge in the field relevant to the present invention as it existed before the priority date of each claim of this application. 3 Summary of the Invention In light of such circumstances, the present invention is directed to an invention relating to the identification of a neutralizing epitope present on ADAMTS-13 and a neutralizing/absorbing agent for an antibody thereby proposed, which is mainly 5 intended for an autoantibody. Preferably, the present invention provides a method of producing the neutralizing/absorbing agent. Preferably, the present invention provides an application of the neutralizing/absorbing agent. 10 Preferably, the present invention provides a method of producing a full-length or partially modified molecule of vWF-specific cleaving protease, which is obtained by modifying the epitope. Preferably, the present invention provides an application of the full-length or partially modified molecule of vWF-specific cleaving protease, which is obtained by 15 modifying the epitope. However, the use of a neutralizing region identified by a method of determining an epitope for an antibody against ADAMTS-13 disclosed in a previous application (JP Patent Application No. 2002-279924) or identified by the present invention as well as the preparation of a partially modified molecule of a neutralizing epitope region that 20 can be newly identified by Western blotting of competitive inhibition assay used in the present invention allows the administration of the protease to a patient positive for an antibody against the protease; or alternatively, allows the absorption of the antibody by a polypeptide or the like containing the neutralizing region provided by the present invention. 25 The present invention further provides an isolated polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence from position 449 to position 687 in an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 1. The present invention further provides a reagent for antibody measurement comprising the isolated polypeptide according to the invention. 30 The present invention further provides a pharmaceutical composition for treating a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody comprising, as an active ingredient, the isolated polypeptide according to the invention. The present invention further provides a method of producing blood or plasma free from an anti-ADAMTS- 13 antibody by bringing a carrier bound with the isolated 35 polypeptide according to the invention into contact with blood or plasma from a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody and binding an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody in the blood or the plasma to the ligand to remove the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody from the blood or the plasma. The present invention further provides use of the polypeptide according to the invention in the manufacture of a medicament for producing blood or plasma free from 5 an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody. Disclosure of the Invention As a result of conducting diligent studies for attaining the isolation and identification of vWF-cleaving protease under the above-described circumstances, the 10 present inventors successfully purified and isolated heretofore unreported vWF cleaving protease of interest and identified an amino acid sequence of a mature protein thereof and a gene encoding the amino acid sequence in the previous application (JP Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2003-284570). Based on the findings obtained using genetic recombination techniques 15 described in the previous application (JP Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2003-284570), the present inventors identified a region likely to be essential for activity expression (JP Patent Application No. 2002-279924). From the results of using a mutant molecule prepared on the basis of these findings to analyze a major neutralizing region recognized by an autoantibody against 20 4A anti-ADAMTS-13 in an acquired TTP patient in the present invention, it has been revealed that the region recognized by the autoantibody is in agreement with the above-described region likely to be essential for activity expression and is located in a region from a Cys-rich region (at approximately position 499) to a spacer region (at approximately position 687). Accordingly, a principal requirement of a major neutralizing epitope region provided by the present invention for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody is the region from the Cys-rich region (at approximately position 499) to the spacer region (at approximately position 687) in a polypeptide composing ADAMTS-13 or a peptide fragment having an equivalent amino acid sequence. That is, the present invention relates to a polypeptide comprising a neutralizing epitope region in von Willebrand factor-specific cleaving protease (hereinafter, also referred to as vWFCP or ADAMTS-13), which is recognized by an antibody against the protease, or a peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide. The neutralizing epitope region in the polypeptide or the peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide that is claimed in claim I is located in a region from position 449 to position 687 in an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 1. The present invention is further intended to a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence from position 449 to position 687 in an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 1, or a peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide. The present invention is also intended to a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence from position 449 to position 687 in an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 1 where one or several amino acids are deleted, substituted, or added, the polypeptide being recognized by an antibody against von Willebrand factor-specific cleaving protease, or a peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide. One or several amino acids used herein refers to one to five amino acids, preferably one to three amino acids, more preferably one or two amino acids. Using, as an antigen, a polypeptide or the like of the neutralizing epitope region, which is prepared on the basis of the amino acid sequence of ADAMTS- 13 obtained by this finding, for example, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies can be created by a typical immunization method (Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, edited by F.M. Ausbel et al., (1987); Antibody Engineering: A PRACTICAL APPROACH, edited by J. McCAFFERTY et al., (1996); Antibodies: A Laboratory Manual, edited by Harlow David Lane (1988); or 5 ANTIBODY ENGINEERING second edition, edited by Carl A.K. BORREBAECK (1995)). Alternatively, an antibody binding to the protein (ADAMTS-13) can be created by a technique of creating an antibody by use of a phage display technique (Phage Display of Peptides and Proteins: A Laboratory Manual, edited by Brian K. Kay et al., (1996); Antibody Engineering: A PRACTICAL APPROACH, edited by J. McCAFFERTY et al., (1996); or ANTIBODY ENGINEERING second edition, edited by Carl A.K. BORREBAECK (1995)). Based on these techniques, a neutralizing antibody for the activity of the protease of the present invention or an antibody simply binding to the protease can also be isolated from a sample from a TTP patient positive for an autoantibody against the protease of the present invention. In addition, the use of these antibodies allows the application of the present invention to diagnosis and treatment for a disease associated with variations in the amount of the protease of the present invention, for example, TTP. The present invention also encompasses these antibodies. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of diagnosing a patient with a TTP-like disease or a patient at risk of developing vWF-dependent thrombosis, and the method comprises steps below. Diagnostic assay for a disease associated with variations in the amount of the protease of the present invention is performed using a biological sample from the patient. Such a sample can be used directly in the assay or, in some cases, can need to be subjected prior to the assay to treatment such as the removal of possible interfering substances in the sample. Examples of suitable biological samples include blood, urine, sweat, tissue, or serum. The method involves detecting an autoantibody against vWF-cleaving protease in the biological sample. The steps of the method are as follows: (a) bringing a biological sample obtained from the patient into contact with a solid support in which ADAMTS- 13 or a partial peptide fragment thereof is immobilized; (b) bringing the solid support into contact with an anti-human immunoglobulin antibody labeled with a developer; and 6 (c) detecting the label of the specifically bound developer in the step (b) in order to obtain a value corresponding to the concentration of an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody in the sample. The above-described diagnosis can be conducted by immunoassay known in the art. Solid supports that can be used include beads and plates made of a resin such as polystyrene. Developers that can be used include radioisotopes, enzymes such as peroxidase and alkaline phosphatase, and fluorescent substances. In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, the polypeptide of the present invention is also useful as a neutralizing agent for an autoantibody by administering the polypeptide to a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody or as a removing agent for an autoantibody. In this case, the neutralization of the autoantibody refers to binding to the autoantibody, thereby inhibiting the binding of the autoantibody to vWF-cleaving protease. In this method, the polypeptide is optionally immobilized in a suitable support or the like using a method known in the art. Subsequently, a sample containing an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody to be removed, for example, blood from the patient is brought into contact with the immobilized polypeptide to thereby remove the autoantibody from the sample from the patient. On this occasion, a carrier bound with a ligand specific to the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody is brought into contact with blood or plasma from the patient and the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody in the blood or the plasma is bound to the ligand to thereby remove the antibody from the blood or the plasma. Subsequently, the blood or the plasma from which the antibody have been removed may be reinjected to the patient. The above-described polypeptide or peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide can be used as the ligand specific to the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody. The contact may be performed, for example, by allowing the blood or plasma from the patient to pass through the carrier bound with the ligand. The present invention further encompasses a method of producing blood or plasma free from an anti-ADAMTS 13 antibody by bringing a carrier bound with the above-described polypeptide or peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide into contact with blood or plasma from a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody and binding an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody in the blood or the plasma to the ligand to remove the antibody from the blood or the plasma. 7 A neutralizing agent for an autoantibody administered to a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-1 3 antibody is a pharmaceutical composition for treating a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody comprising, as an active ingredient, the above-described polypeptide or peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide. The pharmaceutical composition for treating a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody also includes a pharmaceutical composition for treating a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody comprising, as an active ingredient, a polypeptide or a peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide composed of the above-described polypeptide or peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide, which lacks reactivity with an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody by modification such as molecular substitution, deletion, or insertion. The modification such as molecular substitution, deletion, or insertion used herein refers to the deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acids, for example, in an amino acid sequence of the above-described polypeptide or peptide fragment derived from the polypeptide. Such modification allows, for example, alteration in the structure of the polypeptide or the peptide fragment and therefore allows the loss of the epitope. Accordingly, the polypeptide or the peptide fragment loses reactivity with the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody. When the polypeptide of the present invention recognized by an ADAMTS-13 antibody is used, for example, as a neutralizing agent for an autoantibody by administering the polypeptide to a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS- 13 antibody, the polypeptide can be diluted with a saline, a buffer solution, or the like, and made into a preparation to obtain a pharmaceutical composition. The pH of the preparation is preferably in the pH range from weakly-acidic pH to neutral pH, which is close to body fluid pH; a lower limit thereof is preferably from pH 5.0 to 6.4 and an upper limit thereof is preferably from pH 6.4 to 7.4. The preparation can also be provided in a form storable for a long period such as a freeze-dried form. In this case, when used, the preparation can be dissolved in water, a saline, a buffer solution, or the like, and then used at a desired concentration. The preparation of the present invention may contain pharmacologically acceptable additives (e.g., carriers, excipients, and diluents) and stabilizers that are usually used in drugs or other ingredients that are pharmaceutically required. The stabilizers are exemplified by monosaccharides such as glucose, disaccharides such as 8 saccharose and maltose, sugar alcohols such as mannitol and sorbitol, neutral salts such as sodium chloride, amino acids such as glycine, nonionic surfactants such as polyethylene glycol, a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene copolymer (Pluronic), and polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester (Tween), and human albumin. It is preferred that any of these stabilizers on the order of 1 to 10 w/v% should be added to the preparation. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention can be administered in an effective amount by, for example, intravenous injection, intramuscular injection, or subcutaneous injection and is administered in a single dosage or several dosages. The dosage varies depending on the symptom, age, body weight, and so on, of a patient and is preferably 0.001 mg to 100 mg per dosage. The present specification encompasses contents described in the specification and/or drawings of JP Patent Application No. 2003-071979 that serves as a basis for the priority of the present application. Throughout this specification the word "comprise", or variations such as "comprises" or "comprising", will be understood to imply the inclusion of a stated element, integer or step, or group of elements, integers or steps, but not the exclusion of any other element, integer or step, or group of elements, integers or steps. Brief Description of the Drawings Figure 1 is a diagram showing a method of producing a C-terminus deletion mutant for determining an epitope for an antibody; Figure 2 is a photograph in which the expression and abundance of the prepared C-terminus deletion mutant has been confirmed by Western blotting under non-reducing conditions using an anti-FLAG antibody; Figure 3 is a photograph in which a region recognized by purified IgG derived from an acquired TTP patient 003 has been confirmed by Western blotting under non-reducing conditions; 9 Figure 4 is a photograph in which a region recognized by purified IgG derived from an acquired TTP patient 004 has been confirmed by Western blotting under non-reducing conditions; Figure 5 is a photograph in which a region recognized by purified IgG derived from an acquired TTP patient 009 has been confirmed by Western blotting under non-reducing conditions; and (Next text page 10) 9a Figure 6 is a photograph in which a more precise region recognized by purified IgG derived from the acquired TTP patients has been confirmed. Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention Although the present invention will be described hereinafter in detail with reference to Examples, the present invention is not intended to be limited to these Examples by any means. Examples Preparation Example I (Preparation of C-terminus deletion mutant of ADAMTS- 13) Expression vectors for full-length and mutant (sequentially lacking domains from the C terminus) (Fulll427, and T1135X, W1016X, W897X, W808X, W746X, W688X, T581X, Q449X, W387X, and P285X; each numerical value represents the number of amino acid residues from Met encoded by an initiation codon ATG to a stop codon, and X represents a stop codon) genes described in the previous patent application (JP Patent Application No. 2002-279924) were utilized to perform transfection using Hela cells in the procedures below. Each mutant location in a full-length sequence is shown in Figure 1. At first, 24 hours before transfection, 1-3x1 05 cells per 35-mm dish were seeded. On the following day, 10 ptl of the Polyamine Transfection Reagent TransIT (manufactured by TAKARA) per 2 ptg of each of the expression vectors was added to 200 pl of a serum-free medium such as Opti-MEM to prepare a complex with DNA according to the instructions attached to the reagent. The complex was then added dropwise to the above-described various cells prepared in advance and was incubated for 6 hours. Seventy-two hours after the incubation, the medium was collected. The detection of each appropriately concentrated mutant was conducted Western blotting using an anti-FLAG-M2 antibody (manufactured by Kodak) and staining with an anti-mouse IgG-alkaline phosphatase enzyme-labeled antibody system (the result of confirming the expression of the mutants is shown in Figure 2). Example 1 (Analysis of epitope for antibody in acquired TTP patient using Western blotting) 10 IgG fractions (antibody concentration: 2 to 5 mg/mI) were prepared from plasma samples from acquired TTP patients using a protein A column according to a standard method, and diluted 200-fold to perform Western blotting. An IgG-alkaline phosphatase-labeled antibody was used as a secondary antibody in a filter, and the filter was stained with a BCIP/NBT substrate to visualize bands (Figures 3 to 5). The region thereby determined which is recognized by the antibody was confirmed to be located on the C-terminus side from the Q449X, because a region up to the W688X shows reactivity and a region at the Q449X shows no reactivity with all of the antibody fractions from the three patients,. Example 2 (Analysis of precise epitope for antibody in acquired TTP patient using Western blotting based on principle of competitive inhibition) For narrowing down the more precise location of the epitope recognized by the neutralizing antibody of the present invention, supernatants from the W688X mutant and the full-length wild-type ADAMTS-13 were subjected to electrophoresis and transferred to a PVDF membrane. The PVDF membrane was utilized in a competitive inhibition system using primary antibody reaction solutions obtained by previously preincubating the above-described antibodies from the patients with a concentrated supernatant having the considerable overexpression of the Q449X mutant, the W688X mutant, or the full-length wild-type ADAMTS-13. As a result, bands positive for the full-length wild type ADAMTS-13 for all of the samples were confirmed to disappear by the W688X mutant (Figure 6). This has suggested that all of the antibodies from the three patients recognize a region located on the N-terminus side from the W688X. From the results shown in Examples 1 and 2, a major neutralizing region for the autoantibodies used from the three patients was confirmed to be a region located on the terminus side of the Q449X and on the N-terminus side from the W688X, that is, a region from a Cys-rich region to a spacer region which is between the Q449X and the X688X. All publications, patents, and patent applications cited herein are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. 11 Industrial Applicability The findings brought about by the present invention demonstrate that a polypeptide of this invention shows specific immunoreactivity with an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody. Therefore, the use of the polypeptide allows the rapid detection of the amount of the anti-ADAMTS- 13 antibody, diagnosis for diseases associated with variations in the amount of a protease of the present invention, or the neutralization of the binding or inhibitory activity of the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody. Thus, the polypeptide provided by the present invention provides a wide variety of applications including the detection of the anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody and other applications. The present invention exhibits such remarkable action or effect and can be said to be an invention of great significance which contributes to every field. 12
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1. An isolated polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence from position 449 to position 687 in an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 1. 5
2. A reagent for antibody measurement comprising the isolated polypeptide according to claim 1.
3. The reagent for antibody measurement according to claim 2, wherein an 10 autoantibody in a TTP patient is an object to be detected.
4. A pharmaceutical composition for treating a patient positive for an anti ADAMTS-13 antibody comprising, as an active ingredient, the isolated polypeptide according to claim I or claim 2. 15
5. The pharmaceutical composition for treating a patient positive for an anti ADAMTS-13 antibody according to claim 4, wherein the pharmaceutical composition is administered to the patient to thereby neutralize the antibody. 20
6. A method of producing blood or plasma free from an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody by bringing a carrier bound with the isolated polypeptide according to claim I into contact with blood or plasma from a patient positive for an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody and binding an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody in the blood or the plasma to the ligand to remove the anti-ADAMTS-l 3 antibody from the blood or the plasma. 25
7. Use of the polypeptide according to claim I in the manufacture of a medicament for producing blood or plasma free from an anti-ADAMTS-13 antibody.
8. The isolated polypeptide according to claim 1, substantially as hereinbefore 30 described with reference to the Examples, excluding, if any, comparative Examples. 13
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